5th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry was organized during the summer of 1862 with men recruited in the central section of Kentucky. It was attached to Buford's Brigade and skirmished in Tennessee and Kentucky. Later it fought with J H Morgan, and many of its members were captured at Buffington Island on July 19 and the remaining part at New Lisbon on July 26, 1863. The regiment was not reorganized.
- Officers: Colonel D Howard Smith, Lieutenant Colonels Churchill G Campbell and Preston Thomson, and Major Thomas Y Brent, Jr.
See:National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database.
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